BULLDOG
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Again, no major progressive outlet is talking about this tattoo shit. The entire thread is built on bullshit.I think what Billy’s point was (if I may interject) is that whatever “sage” that someone wants to trot out, you can find biases in their person to dismiss them. For years, the Websters dictionary was seen as the standard. If I or someone else wished to debunk Websters, we likely could find that whomever Webster was…he had a certain perversion, bias, weakness, slant; whatever you want to call it. And folks can use that like a club to hammer away at the credibility of the dictionary so much so that you cannot use Websters as a bedrock source of information now. Such as the Conservatives have done with anything that reports the truth about Trump.
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And even factcheck.org to a lesser extent.
I can’t speak for Billy but I think that was his point; whatever bedrock you rest upon can be usurped if you dig deep enough into the creator’s past and simply wish to amplify one or two data points to call their impartiality into question.
Outside of Media Matters and maybe another MEDIA fact checker, there doesn't seem to BE any conservative equivalents. Why do you think that is? I think because Conservatives are confident in the information that THEY have discovered and that most of their questions have been answered..
I think you go to psychics or fact-checkers when you're SEVERELY in doubt about figuring out your OWN directions and compass. Or lack confidence in making your OWN decisions and judgements. I could get snarky and EXTEND that theory to how the Left turns to GOVT to solve their each and every one of their hairy little problems de jour, rather than finding other public ways to fix things. But THEN --- I'd be over-thinking the concept..
There are many structural defects to the "fact checkers"
1) They LEAP to judgement while the issue is current news cycle. Makes them look more like "damage control" for their leftist sponsors than objective.
2) Like the ENTIRE internet, there's a lot of "EXPIRED WISDOM" and like other places on the web, they put hardly ANY effort in reviewing their judgement after the facts are in. So their harsh quick pronouncements are HARDLY ever revised and live forever in cyber space.
3) All the reasons I originally gave.
But just #1 and #2 are ENOUGH to impeach their modus operandi.
You are bashing the left for checking facts now? Oh boy ... and I thought you were one of the more reasonable ones. Guess not. Unless I've misinterpreted what you are trying to say here.
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Either you didn't read the reasons I gave or it's impossible for you to comprehend the obvious. There are SOLID REASONS why this is not fact-checking. It's also why the Left has totally ineffective in "resisting" as the OP outlines. Go back to the OP -- read the idiocy that results from folks that depend on "fact-checkers" to give them their opinions and talking points.
WTF is "tattoo shit" ???
Not sure, but it sounds like a really bad hobby.